Trace

Track and trace components and finished goods through the supply chain to identify grey market diversion and parallel trade

OpSec’s Trace Insight^™ empowers clients to trace products through the manufacturing and distribution process. The data collected enables brand and supply chain staff to understand facility performance, distribution accuracy, and even retailer (online and brick and mortar) efficiency.

Production and distribution partners can perform declarations in the OpSec Insight^™  portal, mobile app, or API, linking together the relevant metadata and OpSec’s Unique Identifiers (UIDs). Declaration stages are completely customizable by the brand owner depending on the product’s supply chain lifecycle. The OpSec Insight^™  dashboard may be used to check vendor inventory or declarations summary at a glance and in real-time.

Brand owners can configure the system to collect additional data associated with each UID. Examples of events can include:

• Materials Used & Provenance
• Manufacturing Details
• Distribution and Logistics Information
• In-Store and Post Purchase Details
• Warranty, Recycle, and Repair Information

OpSec has developed a series of tools to help our brand owners make these data associations, limiting disruption to their workflows. This can include:

• Direct entry into OpSec Insight^™  (efficiencies can be gained by scanning tools)
• On-Premise data collection tools
• Entry into OpSec Insight^™  via file import (.csv, .xlsx, etc.)
• Automated data exchange via API connectors

Details about a product’s UID, and its product journey, can also be used to engage consumers. These details enable consumers to authenticate the product; as well as help to personalize and contextualize the experience that consumers have with your products.